Bellarmine Mugabe gets fine-or-jail sentence and deportation order

By Lebone Rodah Mosima 

Bellarmine Mugabe, the son of Zimbabwe’s late former president Robert Mugabe, was sentenced in the Alexandra Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday to two fine-or-jail sentences and ordered deported after pleading guilty to pointing a firearm and contravening the Immigration Act.

Mugabe was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment or a R400,000 fine for pointing a firearm, and 18 months’ imprisonment or a R200,000 fine for contravening the Act.

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His co-accused, Tobias Tamirepi Matonhodze, was sentenced to an effective three years’ direct imprisonment for attempted murder after admitting to shooting a complainant during an altercation at Mugabe’s Hyde Park residence in Johannesburg.

The sentences followed guilty pleas entered by both accused on 17 April.

Mugabe pleaded guilty to contravening the Immigration Act and to pointing a firearm in a separate incident in